Re: First Conlang...? (Was Re: some insane West Greenlandic sentences)

Hallo!

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:00:30 -0600,
Eddy Ohlms <etg@...> wrote:

> David Peterson wrote:
>
> > << > Fragosimthalrostinintininatzeohqalliqiaqaq - I'm sorry, but I
> > find
> > > polysynthetic languages absolutely incomprehensible.
> >
> > Yeah, They certainly aren't like anything most conlangers have seen. I
> > love them,
> > though. I have another polylang I'm working on.>>
> >
> > I thought that the newbie stereotype was that their first language
> > would pretty much always be a polysynthetic language...?  Or maybe I'm
> > confusing polysynthetic with agglutinating...
>
> I think's it's agglutinating you're thinking of. Actually, most newbie
> conlangs I've seen are ripoffs of European languages.
Yes; but using agglutinating rather than fusional morphology to express
the Standard Average European grammatical categories.  Pretty much
like, well, Esperanto.

Greetings,

Jörg.

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